Warrior Nation
Welcome to Warrior Nation, the UK's only podcast offering a critical lens on the British military and its relationship with civil society. The podcast is produced by ForcesWatch, an organisation dedicated to investigating militarisation and military ethics. From the brutality of basic training, to predatory recruitment practices and lobbying, we expose and challenge unaccountable military power.
Episodes
36 episodes
International anti-militarism: Life, art and loss in the Palestinian diaspora (SE5 EP6)
Welcome to Season Five of Warrior Nation! This time we're talking to anti-militarist activists from around the world to learn their motivations, strategies and tactics. The last few years have shown us nothing if not that militarism is on the r...
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55:17
International anti-militarism: Neocolonialism in South Korea (SE5 EP5)
Welcome to Season Five of Warrior Nation! This time we're talking to anti-militarist activists from around the world to learn their motivations, strategies and tactics. The last few years have shown us nothing if not that militarism is on the r...
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43:46
Anti-militarism & international solidarity: Kathy Kelly (SE5 EP4)
Welcome to Season Five of Warrior Nation! This time we're talking to anti-militarist activists from around the world to learn their motivations, strategies and tactics. The last few years have shown us nothing if not that militarism is on the r...
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58:52
International anti-militarism: Ukrainian war resisters (SE5 EP3)
Welcome to Season Five of Warrior Nation! This time we're talking to anti-militarist activists from around the world to learn their motivations, strategies and tactics. The last few years have shown us nothing if not that militarism is on the r...
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46:57
International anti-militarism: militarism & patriarchy in Israel (SE5 EP2)
Welcome to Season Five of Warrior Nation! This time we're talking to anti-militarist activists from around the world to learn their motivations, strategies and tactics. The last few years have shown us nothing if not that militarism is on the r...
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47:19
International anti-militarism: Demilitarising Education (SE5 EP1)
Welcome to Season Five of Warrior Nation! This time we're talking to anti-militarist activists from around the world to learn their motivations, strategies and tactics. The last few years have shown us nothing if not that militarism is on the r...
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1:02:00
International anti-militarism (Season 5 Trailer)
Warrior Nation returns with a series exploring the work of leading anti-militarist organisations from around the world. With wars raging in Gaza, Ukraine and beyond, platforming critical voices has never been more important. So we've sought out...
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2:23
The Troubles, so called: Britain's war in Ireland (EP3)
Whether it is Brexit or historical allegations, the colonial legacy of Northern Ireland haunts British politics. With a controversial bill on the war having just been approved in Parliament, Forces Watch found three unique voices whose lives an...
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30:00
The Troubles, so called: Britain's war in Ireland (EP2)
Whether it is Brexit or historical allegations, the colonial legacy of Northern Ireland haunts British politics. With a controversial bill on the war having just been approved in Parliament, Forces Watch found three unique voices whose lives an...
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58:54
The Troubles, so called: Britain's war in Ireland (EP1)
Whether it is Brexit or historical allegations, the colonial legacy of Northern Ireland haunts British politics. With a controversial bill on the war having just been approved in Parliament, ForcesWatch found three unique voices whose lives and...
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59:11
The War Racket: Reflections & Predictions (SE4 EP10)
In our final episode of Series 4, we speak with Paul Rogers on the parallels and differences between the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine, and reflect on some of the key themes that have emerged across the past five months. Paul is
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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56:11
War & Police: Linking the Cops & the Military (SE4 EP9)
It cannot be denied that the police are becoming more militarised - not just in the United States but here in Britain. Yet this focus on hardware presents the cops and the military as separate entities. In reality, they are built from the same ...
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47:46
A Material World: Think-Tank Funding & Defending the Status Quo (SE4 EP8)
Think-tanks are a key part of the political process in the UK - indeed globally - but do they actually promote democracy? Which ones have influence, how are they funded, and what role does legacy media have in amplifying their ideas.In ...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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41:12
Everything Looks Like a Nail: Why the Military Can't Save the Planet (SE4 EP7)
As the impacts of the climate crisis escalate, there is a growing trend for securitised responses that foreground the role of militaries in tackling the fallout. But whose interests do these militaries serve and what role have they played in br...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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51:12
Dark Economics: Understanding the Politics of Defence Budgets (SE4 EP6)
As the sentiment goes, there always seems to be money for warfare but never quite enough for welfare. So what's the picture in the UK - that tiny collection of islands with its towering defence expenditure. In this episode, we're joined by Matt...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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36:38
Anti-Establishment Ethos: Critiquing the Military and Foreign Policy (SE4 EP5)
Foreign and military policy doesn’t cut through to voters, or so it is said. What matters to the public is bread and butter economic policy or GP surgery hours. Yet, is it really the case that people simply don’t care about, for example, Yemen?...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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49:07
Very Murky: the Arms Trade and Parliament (SE4 EP4)
Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) is the preeminent anti-arms trade organisation in the UK. Their advocacy for a safer and fairer world extends into many realms, including Parliament – where defence firms wield unchecked influence over ele...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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41:46
Gentleman Bureaucrat Masculinity: Liberal Militarism and the Civil Service (SE4 EP3)
When it comes to critiquing and analysing how Government works to support the military, the focus is always on politicians and the lobbying work that seeks to influence them. But what about the people in Whitehall who oil the political machine?...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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44:24
Lifting the Rock: the Military and Justice (SE4 EP2)
From Deepcut to sexual abuse cases and war crimes, the UK military and MOD are no stranger to legal controversy. And when you read back through the reportage around this lamentable list one name recurs again and again, acting in oppositio...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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46:37
Dirty Secrets: the Press and the Military (SE4 EP1)
Back in 2003, every national British newspaper bar the Guardian supported the invasion of Iraq - including The Guardian's sister paper, The Observer. Unfortunately, this was not an anomaly (dodgy dossiers or not). The sad trut...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:17:05
Unpacking Armed Forces Day (feat. Dr Ross McGarry)
In this special episode of Warrior Nation, Joe is joined by Dr Ross McGarry to discuss the deeper and varied meanings behind Armed Forces Day. In 2017, when Liverpool hosted the Armed Forces Day national event, Ross ventured out onto the street...
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32:49
War and Memory: Culture (SE3 EP6)
In the final installment of our series on war and memory, Joe speaks with Essex University historian Lucy Noakes and Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz on the creation of cultural memories around armed conflict. They cover a wide array of to...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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40:45
War and Memory: Empire (SE3 EP5)
In the fifth instalment of our series on war and memory Joe speaks with Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff on the ways Empire is remembered in Britain and the disconnect between the state's projection of the country's colonial past vis-a-vis...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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27:57
War and Memory: Moral Injury & Trauma (SE3 EP4)
In the fourth installment of our series on war and memory we speak with ex-British Army mental health clinician Christian Hughes on the traumatic impacts of conflict. He gives a detailed breakdown of PTSD, critiques the condition's framin...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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42:43
War and Memory: Pathologising Critique (SE3 EP3)
In the third installment of our series on war and memory we speak with American academic and Vietnam veteran Jerry Lembcke on how resistance to the conflict in South East Asia was framed during the 1960s and 70s. The discussion focuses on two k...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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41:28